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Anonymous fights perverts
The hacktivist group Anonymous recently announced they will start targeting dirty old men. The group announced this in their typical style with a YouTube video detailing their motives. The movement...
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Arpaio is still kicking, himself
America’s “toughest sheriff,” according to himself, Joe Arpaio of Arizona is facing another self-imposed beating. Currently Arpaio is facing a class action lawsuit for supposed, you guessed it, racial...
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Romney, Rubio, and Radio
It's been going on for years, but once again the GOP is making loud efforts to de-fund National Public Radio (NPR) and related stations. Nixon said it, Reagan said it, and now folks like Mitt Romney...
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Rep. Mike Kelly fights contraception terrorists
Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) said on Wednesday that President Obama's health care reform law which requires insurers to cover contraception is "an attack on religious freedom," and compared it to...
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Paul Ryan gets you pregnant, and you stay pregnant
The presidential election is starting to look like a GQ magazine photo shoot, and I'm realizing that the candidates are so rarely blonde for some reason (are we not electable?). Anyway, if you're not...
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Abortion storm heading for Republican National Convention
A storm is brewing, and the religious conservatives are wondering if they didn't pray enough, and now god is punishing their Republican National Convention with a looming hurricane. The reports seem...
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Conventional lies and ignorance at the RNC
“We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers,” Romney pollster Neil Newhouse said this week, and it surely seems to be the one thing we can be sure the campaign means...
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Romney receives a coup d'etax
In legitimately Bond-esque fashion, a hacker group has announced on PasteBin that they have heisted Mitt Romney’s tax returns from PricewaterhouseCooper’s secure records in their Nashville, TN office....
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Romney gives up on half the country
There are many ways to screw up your presidential campaign, and many are saying that Willard “Mitt” Romney has found one that he will not recover from. These clinching moments have often included...
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Dissent and defiance across Spain
In Spain on Tuesday, protesters in Madrid swarmed parliament under the moniker “Occupy Congress.” This is an event largely coordinated by the Spanish group 15M, or "Los Indignados," which is the...
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Romney occupies Wall Street
Mitt Romney claimed on Wednesday during the presidential debates that Dodd-Frank was: “the biggest kiss that's been given to New York banks I've ever seen.” For those of us not familiar...
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Willard Romney endorses binders
One has to wonder if President Obama’s sudden burst of passion in the second presidential debate was a calculated decision meant to overshadow a less impressive debate in order to gain an edge closer...
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Foreign policy, bayonets, and God's rape
It's coming to a close. I've lived and breathed election politics for months now, and the end is in sight. My mind has melted, and my blood pressure is up. And to all you undecided voters...
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Dia de los lifeboats
I'm enjoying an unseasonably warm day in Oregon, and the sun is out. For those of us on the West Coast climate change is looking pretty nice. In the past week Hurricane Sandy has devastated the East...
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Smoke clouds seen over Colorado and Washington state
I told you so. If a president as unpopular as Bush can get reelected, then it seemed pretty clear Obama would too. The more surprising news lies elsewhere. Colorado and Washington have become the...
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United States suffers manic secession
Following the re-election of President Barack Obama, there has been an unsurprising shout of dissent from his opposition. Citizens in all 50 states (see attached article) have signed online petitions...
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Abortion in the military
After the well-publicized decline of Todd Akin (R-Mo.), Richard Mourdock (R-In.), and even Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan, coming out against abortion in cases of rape is not a popular political...
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No God in New Orleans
A school board in Louisiana has banned the teaching of creationism and revisionist ideals in their science curriculum. The Orleans Parish School Board controls six schools in the New Orleans area, and...
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China will not read this
Last weekend in Handan, China, a city of 1.3 million, the public water system was shut off five days after a chemical leak occurred upstream from the city. The chemical was aniline, a toxic and very...
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Freedom and the war on drugs: America's prison problem
I recently interviewed journalist Todd Pitock, who writes on prisons in the current issue of The Saturday Evening Post. We discussed why the United States has become the leader in incarcerated...
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